Details: Used and gently loved paperback. Light crease, bottom-right corner (see image). Firstprint of 1994 Plume Edition press (of Penguin Books), fifth print run edition (original print, alternate cover, in 1993).”Foxfire is an always engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit.”

Description: “New York Timesbestselling authorJoyce Carol Oatess strongest and most unsparing novel yetan always engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit.

The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls join a gang dedicated to pride, power, and vengeance on a world that seems made to denigrate and destroy them.

Here is the secret history of a sisterhood of blood, a haven from a world of male oppressors, marked by a liberating fury that burns too hot to last. Above all, it is the story of Legs Sadovsky, with her lean, on-the-edge, icy beauty, whose nerve, muscle, hate, and hurt make her the spark of Foxfire: its guiding spirit, its burning core.

At once brutal and lyrical, this is a careening joyride of a novelcharged with outlaw energy and lit by intense emotion. Amid scenes of violence and vengeance lies this novels greatest power: the exquisite, astonishing rendering of the bonds that link the Foxfire girls together. Foxfire reaffirms Joyce Carol Oatess place at the very summit of American writing.”